According to The Enterprise, Gordon Lagstrom, 55, was taken into custody at his Peirce Street home after police received a call from a local veterinarian who was treating a dog with a single gunshot wound.

Police said Lagstrom had taken the dog to the vet for treatment at 12:26 p.m. and left.

Authorities said the dog, an Australian Shepard, underwent surgery but died at 1:30 a.m. Sunday.

It’s unclear what prompted Lagstrom to shoot his dog because police said he was so intoxicated that they could not understand him.

Lagstrom was being held in protective custody. He is charged with animal cruelty, two counts of improper storage of a gun, being intoxicated while in possession of a gun and discharging a gun within 500-feet of a building.

Lagstrom is scheduled to be arraigned Monday in Wareham District Court.